[K3PZN-List] 6m Opening to Europe Might Happen Here - Greetings From FM16

Mon Jun 22 10:41:51 EDT 2015

Bill
nice to hear from you also -- two escapees from the empire of Maryland.  (some friends of ours just slipped across the northern boarder, they were lifers in MD before that).  

nice on the 6m moxon -- I would hang it outside as yard ornament each Spring - maybe hang a garden flag or some flowers (I guess it might be hard to water up 20 feet or so).  yeah my quad is manually pointed, so I made a few trips outside to aim it NE, S and W .... for single hop it does not matter too much which way it is pointed.  I also operate a little 2m SSB/CW - and maybe I will find my way to 432 some day.  I hang out with K3TEZ over in Annapolis who does all his RF with visual restrictions.  
FD - I remember your peninsula being quite the humid spot (my ancestors generally trekked across it) so perhaps its an ideal place for class F (we don't yet have an opportunity here anymore).  I am an extra this year so I don't know where I will pop up on the bands.  I have the K2 and stash of batteries so I can be 1E from home as required.  
CUL - stay cool and QRV
Curt

     On Monday, June 22, 2015 9:56 AM, Peter Morton <mortonph at comcast.net> wrote:

 Great to hear from you, Bill.  Drive up and give us a hand at the Gamber 
FD site.  We need more CW operators.

-Pete, W3GVX

On 6/22/2015 7:50 AM, Mr Bill Mellema via K3PZN-List wrote:
> Hi Jim & Gang,
> Good to hear from you guys....I'm back on 6 meters with a homebrew Moxon antenna hanging in the attic..fixed pointing due West...not much chance to work  Europe  but still having fun. I sometimes think I have a pipeline into ILL- Wis  hi hi.  I'am however able to work up and down the East coast off the ends.. BTW I can't take credit for the homebrew Moxon..a friend of mine here in Chesapeake had made it using tubing from two old lawn chairs believe it or not....I had to adjust the driven element a bit to get it to tune on 6M.
> I will be operating Class 1D (mostly CW) from my home station..will listen for K3PZN and W4DO....
> Good Luck with your Field Day operations..
> 73's
> Bill N3WM
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>        From: James Owen via K3PZN-List <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
>  To: Curt Milton <wb8yyy at yahoo.com>; Carroll County Amateur Radio Club <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
>  Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 7:27 PM
>  Subject: Re: [K3PZN-List] 6m Opening to Europe Might Happen Here
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> Hi Curt,  I heard that opening to the west coast here in FM07.  It started about 12:50 EDST when I heard CA, AZ and OR. I had a meeting that I had to leave for at 1:00 PM so I couldn't wait around to work them. About 19:00 I was hearing AZ and the upper Midwest so the band is still open.  Good luck in working DX on six.  I did pick up a new country this morning ZF1EJ  on Cayman Is.  Not too far away but a new one anyway.  Yesterday at 19:45 UTC I worked XV9NPS on 15m CW my first Vietnam ever.  Good luck with Field Day.  Look for us using W4DO  on most bands though we're having trouble finding people to operate.  So far only about nine are signed up to operate out of a club of 100+.  Too many Tech's that only want to operate 2m and complain that not enough are on the band!
> 73 Jim
>  James C. Owen, III K4CGY
>        From: Curt Milton via K3PZN-List <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
>  To: Carroll County Amateur Radio Club <k3pzn-list at mailman.qth.net>
>  Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 1:04 PM
>  Subject: [K3PZN-List] 6m Opening to Europe Might Happen Here
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> Signals from Europe are landing down south and also to the west coast.  Interesting picture on dxmaps.com, clearly showing how the E-layer clouds (at least two of them) must line up specifically to bring the signals here.  Maybe I missed an opening earlier?  Maybe we will get some Eu propagation still.
> Many 6m stations may not send their grid - send them a signal report if that is all they send - we can look them up after the opening.
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> 6m newbies - we are in grid FM19.
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> FYI.  Curt
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